Spooky & eerie, creepy & crawly…

Halloween is shortly around the bend. And our family happens to love the excitement of costumes and candy, decorations and all the fun surrounding this theme. So in preparation I was soooooo excited to receive these fabulous new Halloween stamps. I think I will possibly be using this an unbelievable mount of times in the next few weeks.

So today I thought I would start off showing some tags I made for goody bags. When it comes closer to Halloween and I actually will finish the tags with ribbon & the recipients names. But you know me, there is no reason why we can’t prep now and do final touches later.

So I took a sheet of white paper and sprayed it with glimmer mist in all the Halloween colours. (caramel apple, pumpkin pie, haunted shadows, raven, marshmallow) I wanted to start out with a shimmery background.

Then I cut my tag shapes out and used all of the stamps to make borders or designs. Then I took Clearsnap “Smooch” (a fabulous paint)and coloured in some of the stamped images.

So to do these tags I used a handful of products: cardstock, core’dinations cardstock (inner colour core) tattered angels glimmer mist, notebook punch,Clearsnap Smooch, black pen & black ink.

Here’s the individual tags prepped and ready to be completed. This tag I mounted onto Core’dinations cardstock. I like not showing the whole images, it leaves more for creativeness and dimension. I coloured in a few of the mummy wraps and then did a little doodling with smooch.

As you can  see I don’t colour every thing. Only a few.

This tag I used lot’s of marshmallow glimmer mist on black cardstock to create the stencil image. Once I had background tones, then I stamped boo all over!

So I hope you enjoyed seeing a few ways to prep you Halloween tags. Further on in the month you will see my post where I complete these tags and attach them to the kids goody bags. I will also be showing you some Halloween pages. to leave you with a teaser, here is the beginning of an 8×8 that I made a border out of stamped images. Can’t wait to finish it. See you Friday Oct.9th to see the projects completed to give!

Have a fabulously spooky day!

Leica

(this is an 8×8)